Apple Ignores Gizmodo WWDC Request

Apple sure knows how to hold a grudge. The company has reportedly ignored gadget blog Gizmodo’s request to attend today’s World Wide Developers Conference keynote in San Francisco.

The ignored request follows a high-profile police raid of editor Jason Chen’ whose Fremont, CA home, after the site published photos and video of an iPhone prototype it had purchased for $5,000. Fellow Giz editor Brian Lam announced this morning that the site would be “liveblogging” using content from other sites present at the event, including GDGT, MacRumors, Ars Technica, Technologizer, Wired, and Macworld.

Lam also put out a request for coverage from those present at the event, writing, “We’re looking especially for folks with extra battery packs, CDMA 3G cellular data equipment, long lenses on professional recent-generation DSLRs and the ability to upload photos quick as lightning on a tethered laptop.”